Fighting for family reunification: the Congolese experience in São Paulo | Patricia Martuscelli by Refugee Studies Centre

Presentation: Fighting for family reunification: the Congolese experience in São Paulo, Brazil
Speaker: Patricia Martuscelli (Universidade de São Paulo)

RSC Conference 2019: Democratizing Displacement
18-19 March 2019
New College, Oxford

On 18-19 March, the RSC Conference 2019 took place at New College, Oxford, with a focus on 'democratizing' refugee protection from a variety of disciplinary angles, including ethics, politics, anthropology, history and law. It examined the role of refugees as political agents able to inform the decisions that affect them at local, state, regional and global levels. It explored the ethics and politics of accountability, participation, and humanitarian governance; the character of practical, institutional and legal mechanisms to ensure that refugees have a say in their protection; and ways in which those who make decisions in relation to the displaced are (or could be) held accountable for their actions.

Conference programme available at: https://www.rsc.ox.ac.uk/files/files-1/conference-programme-print-final_web.pdf

Monday, 18 March
Parallel Sessions 1: Pathway to Durable Solutions

Presentations:
SABINE LEHR (Royal Roads University): Sponsorship is not charity: refugee empowerment in complementary pathways to protection
PATRICIA MARTUSCELLI (Universidade de São Paulo): Fighting for family reunification: the Congolese experience in São Paulo, Brazil
JANINA STÜRNER (University of Erlangen-Nürnberg), Petra Bendel (University of Erlangen-Nürnberg), Hannes Schammann, University of Hildesheim), Christiane Heimann (University of Hildesheim): Tailored to whom? Rethinking resettlement as participatory strategy to empower refugees and host communities
Chair: Alexander Betts (Refugee Studies Centre)

Photos: Röszke makeshift refugee camp from the Hungarian side of the Serbia-Hungary border, 2016. Credit: © UNHCR/Zsolt Balla. Refugees voting for new representatives, Lóvua Resettlement Centre, Angola. Credit: © UNHCR/Omotola Akindipe. Refugees at the Greece-Macedonia border plead for the border to reopen to the thousands stranded there due to border closings, 2015. Credit: Steve Evans (CC BY-NC 2.0).